Chieh Chung, a military researcher at Taiwan's National Policy Foundation, said the new route would be about 7 km (4.3 miles) from the median line, which would squeeze the pre-warning and reaction time for Taiwan's air defences.
Asked to comment on these moves, Chieh Chung (), a senior assistant research fellow at the National Policy Foundation, a Taipei-based think tank, told CNA Sunday that the Wednesday exercise was just one of countless routine coastal artillery live-fire drills held by PLA's two million-strong troops